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Looking for a steady supply of christian short stories? Every week thousands of writers submit stories to our writing contest.

150+ Christian Short Stories to read

Submitted by writers on Reedsy Prompts to our weekly writing contest. If you’re looking for the best Christian short stories, whether they’re funny, didactic, or inspirational, this page is for you.

Christian Short Stories – Page 2 of 10

The Day at Golgotha

Makayla A

Weekly Contest #344

I’ve made a mistake. A robbery that went wrong. You see, my brother and I took many riches from our master. We were supposed to give it to our families. As we were stealing right under our master’s noses, I remembered a commandment. Thou shalt not steal. Would Adonai punish me for doing this? My brother did not listen to reason. We were caught. Our master killed my brother Haim, right before me. I dropped the coins and allowed them to fall to the floor. “Why, you dirty, Jews!” The new rug is now stained with his blood. I put my hands up in f...

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My Troubled Bridges

Frances Gaudiano

Weekly Contest #343

My Troubled BridgesBy Frances Gaudiano “I can’t come visit you at university,” I told my daughter. “Why not?” She wanted me to take her shopping and out for a meal – a bit of pampering to countereffect the pain of living in a dormitory. “Because there is a bridge between home and the campus.” Bridges - my nemesis. I’ve hated bridges all my life. When you think about it, the structure is just hanging there in mid-air. It has to collapse eventually. And I’ve seen plenty of photos in newspapers of crumpled causeways. There was the 1989 earthqua...

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The Margins of Rock Bottom - Based on My Lived Life Experience

Weekly Contest #343

She didn’t mean to make a ceremony out of it. It just happened that way. The first page tore too easily. The sound surprised her with a soft, almost polite noise. It was nothing like the noise in her chest. She stood in the kitchen with a stack of notebooks she’d been carrying for years, their covers bent, their margins crowded with questions she never finished asking. Scripture, prayers, half-brave hopes. She told herself she was only cleaning. Then the second page went. Then the third. By the time she noticed her hands were shaking, paper...

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Alessandro and the Greenhorn Kayaker

Christine Clark

Weekly Contest #343

Alessandro and the Greenhorn Kayaker Our timing couldn’t have been worse! The large water-taxi launch was bearing down full speed straight towards us as my date, Sandro, and I, struggled to get ahead of its path. “Paddle for your life!” he hollered above the roar of the approaching motorboat.~~~~~ Both in our late sixties, I met Alessandro in our Seniors’ Center carpet bowling club. I had been a widow for over 30 years and my friends relentlessly nagged me to start dating seriously. “If you don’t get out of your house you’ll never meet Mr. R...

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The Pregnant Baby Boy

Nick Matsas

Weekly Contest #343

He wakes everyone up at 7 am every day. He screams and screams until he is picked up and fed milk. He is rocked back and forth, held, and poops his pants. He is changed, but this will change. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s growing. The guards of his cradle will soon disappear, and so will his diaper. He will have to learn how to wipe his own ass and ask for food instead of crying for it, but he’s a stubborn fellow, and one night while his parents slept, a fairy came to visit him and grant him any wish. It said, “Look deep within your heart...

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Love is the Answer: My Second Chance at Life

Lynda Kathryn Parker

Weekly Contest #342

My life hasn’t been easy. You see, I should have been dead a long time ago. As Langston Hughes says, “My life has not been a crystal stair.”I was an outwardly happy teenager. Inside, I was very depressed and broken. I am not entirely sure why. I had some trauma in my life, but only God knows for sure. I was approximately seven when I noticed that I was not like the other kids. I was always playing by myself.The earliest memory that I have is sitting on the highest pull-up bar looking down at the other kids playing with each other on the play...

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Time Stops

Robyn Gale

Weekly Contest #342

This story begins with the day I was born. This is not your usual day of birth. On this day, I am 41 years old. I’m in a gay bar in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. As I stand in the crowd at the bar waiting my turn to order a drink, I feel out of place. ‘I am not in my 20s anymore…or my 30s’, my mind rudely reminds me. Should I even be here? Leo and Mark are ahead of me in line. I just met them earlier this evening, but they treat me as a friend they’ve known for years. Mark looks back and sees me, then yells over the noise, “what drink do yo...

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Seaside Redemption

Bob Faszczewski

Weekly Contest #343

John Norton loved the peace and quiet of his palatial home on the bayside of 94th Street in Ocean City, Maryland. After a busy day filling prescriptions at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, Maryland he often would drive to his retreat at the beach and sit down to a dinner of medium rare steak and a glass of wine from Windmill Creek. Afterwards, he would continue reading his latest James Paterson crime novel while relaxing on the comfortable wicker chair on his patio. On most nights, this would lull him into a deep sleep there,...

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What would you call it?

Weekly Contest #342

Dear Heavenly Father Do you think I’m a fool?, like how most people say that I am. They call me stupid and gullible and yet my grades prove that I’m neither those things. I remember sharing about that kid in primary school that used to touch me up my skirt. The times he would compliment my panties if I happened to get a new pair, I didn’t know it was wrong then and I never told anyone about it so no one knew of it. Thought it was normal to be honest, I was 9 then and the lesson on abuse came only when I was 13 and I had switched schools. ...

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Love is in the Air

Eric Manske

Weekly Contest #342

(sensitive content: nothing on-scene, but allusions to violence to humans) The misters sprayed every several minutes, every hour, just like they did every day. No one questioned it anymore. No one wondered why the air was saturated each day with pheromones. No one asked whether removing the choice to love and simply dosing it all around was good for humanity. No one argued about anything anymore. Earth was a planet of kumbaya bliss. Batima strolled along the sidewalk in her neighborhood walking her dog. She waved and spouted niceties...

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Window To Heaven

Weekly Contest #342

She woke up with the first streaks of sunlight hitting her bed. It was a beautiful morning outside, the sky a perfect tone of blue, but Serena felt an inexplicable feeling of sadness slowly descending on her. She sat hunched on the bed. What was this surge overwhelming her, screaming from deep within her insides?She was spotting.Oh, my God, no, not again. Was she losing this one too? With her heart full of fear, she dashed to the toilet. She tried to slather the soap on, her hands shaking so much that she couldn’t even spread the toothpaste ...

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The Light

Weekly Contest #342

“Hello, Eric. This is Dr. Shell. We need you to come to the ho-pi-ta-…Can you hear me? Hello?” There’s noise in the background and Eric sounded distracted. It’s a Saturday night and he didn’t recognize the number when he looked at his screen, but he answered anyway. “Hello! Sorry, let me step out of here. Who is this?” “Eric! It’s Dr. Shell. Please come down to Goodwill, there’s been an accident and your parents are in surgery. I’ll be waiting for you at the reception son, just come down soon as you can, okay?” Dr. Shell sounded concerned ...

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The Cost of the Cross

Sammantha Robinson

Weekly Contest #342

His body violently shivered as he lay on his side in a ball like an animal protecting himself from the elements. The jumpsuit did nothing for warmth; the thin, unwelcoming mat pressed cold against his skin. His stomach roared with cramps from a hunger that couldn’t be satisfied. He felt every muscle fiber contracting, dying for relief from meth withdrawal. His cries had been silenced by the seasoned inmate trying to sleep on the bottom bunk. “Fuck man, I know you’re going through withdrawals, but goddamn, I’ve never heard anyone make as muc...

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For God Loved Me: He Gave Me a Second Chance with a Second Heart

Jennifer Parker

Weekly Contest #342

For God Loved Me: He Gave Me a Second Chance with a Second Heart July 2005, life was supposed to be exciting! My oldest daughter was preparing to go off to college with all the dreams of college life. We were preparing for her orientation, and this was a proud and exciting moment. I on the other hand would have a life-changing event happen within a week’s time. A week before the trip to orientation/registration, I noticed some abnormal bleeding. It wasn’t painful, just unusual. I was already three months late for my yearly physical, (very ...

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More Than Words

Weekly Contest #342

Facades and reactions are usually her saving grace and combat response but today is different. It takes too much strength for her to smile at anyone, and even her nieces and nephews have failed in all attempts to distract her. Felca has always been the rose among thorns but she wants nothing more than to be a thorn right about now. Resisted and avoided.The room is full; people and machines decorate the hallway and Felca hasn't moved since she arrived. Her thighs are starting to burn from sitting in the cold chair, but that and judging people...

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